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In July Mr. Brown addressed the Billings Archeological Society in 

 Billings, Mont., on the subject "The Amateur Archeologist in the 

 Salvage Program." During Thanksgiving weekend he attended the 

 20th Plains Conference in Lincoln and presented two papers, "A 

 Survey of the Pony Creek Watershed" and "Archeology of the Lower 

 Yellowtail Reservoir." Both were published in abstract in the Pro- 

 ceedings of the 73d Meeting of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences. 

 He attended the meetings of the Society for American Archeology 

 in Boulder, Colo., on May 1-3. At the end of the year he was again 

 excavating archeological sites in the Pony Creek area of Iowa. 



Dr. Warren W. Caldwell, archeologist, was in the field from the 

 beginning of the year until the end of August, He devoted the re- 

 mainder of his time to specimen and field-record studies concerning 

 sites that he had excavated in previous years. Primary attention was 

 devoted to the analyses (with Richard E. Jensen) of sites 39LM208, 

 39LM209, and 39LM232, excavated last year in the Big Bend Reser- 

 voir of South Dakota by Caldwell and Jensen. He completed the 

 analytical studies and began a manuscript reporting the results. He 

 also completed analyzing materials from, and prepared a major draft 

 of a monograph on, "Investigations at the McKensey Village (39AR- 

 201), South Dakota," a site that he excavated in 1960. In collabora- 

 tion with G. Hubert Smith, he prepared and submitted for publication 

 a handbook for the U.S. Corps of Engineers' Reservoir Series, entitled 

 "Oahe Reservoir : Archeology, History and Geology." This was the 

 fourth handbook in this series, prepared by the same authors. He also 

 prepared a popular article on "Fortified Villages of the Dakotas," 

 published in Missouri Basin Progress. He published two book re- 

 views in the Plains Anthropologist and prepared several administra- 

 tive and progress reports concerning the work of the ]\Iissouri Basin 

 Project. 



Dr. Caldwell participated in the 191/2 Plains Conference in Pierre 

 in July and discussed his current fieldwork. He participated in the 

 20th Plains Conference in Lincoln at the end of November, presenting 

 a paper on "Investigations in the Lower Big Bend Reservoir, South 

 Dakota" and also serving as a panel member on "Plains Chronology," 

 presenting a discussion of "Dendrochronology in the Plains — Past 

 and Present." He attended the Y3d annual meeting of the Nebraska 

 Academy of Sciences and presented a paper, "Primus in Orbe Deos 

 Fecit Timor or Ceramics ad Nauseam," that was published in abstract 

 in the Proceedings of the meeting. His paper "Fortified Villages of 

 the Northern Plains" was read in absentia at the annual meeting of 

 the Society for American Archeology in Boulder, Colo., on May 3. 

 Throughout the year he continued to serve as chairman of the dendro- 

 chronology section of the Missouri Basin Chronology Program, as con- 



